Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Gowling WLG (UK) LLP

Gowling WLG (UK) LLP

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrator to join our award winning Diversity and Inclusion team in Birmingham.

Your role will be to work with the D&I Manager to support to delivery of our extensive D&I programme across the firm.

You will be an integral part of the team providing co-ordination and administration to support us in achieving our ambitions.

In addition you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of stakeholders across the firm including the co-leads of our employee networks, partners, business services directors, fee earners at all levels and members of the wider business services teams.

About you:

While the law is what we 'do', there's much more to us than that. As people, and as a firm, we believe we have a responsibility to help those around us, to make a positive difference in the local and wider community, to support our people and enable them to flourish.

This isn't just good business sense, it is good people sense too. That's why one of our core values is 'We all bring something different', and why creating an inclusive workplace where our people can be themselves, and celebrating the fact that we're all individuals, is at the top of our agenda. We are at an exciting point in our D&I journey, having launched our five year "Inclusion for All" strategy in 2021.

We are looking for someone who has strong administrative skills and a passion for diversity and inclusion and the impacts it can have on building and strengthening the organisation as a whole.

Whilst direct experience in a D&I role is not required, your desire to impact and support our development of our core values and strategies is.

The core skills for this role require you to have:

Excellent technical skills
Strong organisational skills in terms of diary management and ability to manage projects
Strong communications skills both written and verbal
Excellent knowledge of Excel, data systems and reporting
Experienced in managing conflicting priorities in a busy team
Be a strong collaborator, working flexibly and efficiently within the wider team
The ability to take a consultative approach and takes ownership
Excellent interpersonal skills

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the top 10 best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 22 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

A hybrid approach to office and remote working, with up to 50% remote working available.
25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a threemonth sabbatical every five years
Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.

The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.

This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.

Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

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